Los herederos especialmente protegidos en el derecho cubano

The article analyses the regulation of the necessary succession in Cuban law, identifying the conditions and remedies, and pointing out that the Cuban legitimate succession, contrary to a generalised opinion, is a protective legitimate succession and does not have a welfare content. In Cuban law, the mere existence of a kinship relationship with the deceased (marriage, descent, ancestry) is not suficient for the attribution of the status of legitimaire, since two important requirements must be met: inability to work and economic dependence. From this point of view, it seems to me that Cuban law could be taken as a model for other legislations, precisely in order to ind an important new balance between the freedom to testate and the protection of the legitimated persons